Le dimanche 10 décembre 2006 à 16:17 +0000, monty19@ hotmail.com a écrit : > "Jim Cornette" <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > news:457C29DC.3090102@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >Kevin Kofler wrote: > >>Lonni J Friedman <netllama <at> gmail.com> writes: > >>>On 12/9/06, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley <at> adelphia.net> wrote: > >>>>(I'm still waiting for google to buy nvidia and take the driver > >>>>open source . > >>>Life must be nice in this fantasy land of yours. > >> > >>Google buying out NVidia and freeing their driver might be fantasy, but > >>here in real world, there's this: > >>http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ > >>It isn't ready for end users yet, but soon it will be. They already have > >>glxgears running for some NVidia cards. > >> > >>I'd not buy an NVidia card now, but when Nouveau will work, why not? > >> > >> Kevin Kofler > >> > > > >I tried out the nouveau driver. It is not ready for prime-time but does > >work and compile on my NV card. I believe that the driver will be part of > >Fedora in the near future. There is interest in getting this driver in the > >Fedora fold. > > > >I didn't buy the NV card intentionally, the lack of OSS support for 3D is > >one reason I'd not purchase the card on my own. Maybe when high end cards > >work by default in Linux, I'd consider purchasing the product. > > > >Jim > > Livna just updated the drivers for nvidia within the last few days. Among > wonderful improvements that I've noticed with Cedega are that World of > Warcraft now displays correctly without having to use the OpenGL option in > the game config (which was way slower), and the X Server no longer crashes > when I try to run games full screen. Obviously mileage may vary, but if you > have already tried with the previous driver, you may want to have a go with > the newer one. It was a vast improvement for me. > > With the new livna driver and desktop effects enabled when i maximize and unmaximize googleearth window two or 3 times the X server crash and go to the login screen. I have to say that i have other problems with googleearth as i can only see a circle of atmosphere with no globe in between, only stars. Sometimes maximize and unmaximize the window i can see the earth just before the X server crash ... Eric -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
